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Partnership with Uppsala University develops
The IAEA is a Board member of the International Science Programme (ISP) of the Uppsala University in Sweden, which promotes research capacity in developing countries through the exchange of scientists and post-graduate education in physical and chemical sciences among others. The Agency is making arrangements with Uppsala University to strengthen co-operation in two areas.
To benefit from their so called "sandwich programme", Agency fellows receive training both in-country, in Sweden and in other Nordic countries under ISP supervision to obtain advanced degrees and return home to train others in the application of nuclear techniques for scientific and economic development.
This IAEA-sponsored training activity is specially targeted at LDC's, and a dozen candidates from Ethiopia, Namibia, Senegal, Sudan and Zaire have already been selected. The IAEA is also securing Uppsala's active collaboration for the implementation of TC projects in fields of mutual interest such as environmental monitoring and treatment of industrial waste water.
Interested undergraduate students in related disciplines should contact their national Atomic Energy Commission for further information.
Sterile flies released throughout Zanzibar
An eradication trend continues to be documented through field
data recording "zero wild fly capture" over the last several
weeks. The female tsetse colony size at Tanga, Tanzania has
grown to 635,000 enabling a production of over 80,000 sterile
males per week. The project management team has decided to
expand aerial releases of sterile males from the southern part of
the island to cover its entirety (see Cattle Killer meets its
match, Inside TC, March 1996).
During a field visit by the Director General in early May, a
Zanzibari herdsman stated that his cattle were healthier and
stronger since the wild tsetse fly population had been reduced.
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